re: Class of 2019 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: That's a Wrap Edition

Question for the board. If Kaho comes to Bama, does he count toward the '18 class? If so, does that mean we get one less in'19"

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Question for the board. If Kaho comes to Bama, does he count toward the '18 class? If so, does that mean we get one less in'19"

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TideSaint answered, but I wanna elaborate some. Spending that 2018 class spot on Brandon Kaho is a great move. Getting a stud ILB like him in the program this fall is way better than spending it on another 2019 ILB recruit. We have Shane Lee coming, plus Mwikuta plays both OLB & ILB. So if we get Kaho, we'll be in pretty good shape at ILB.

Obviously we want to get another great ILB like Nakobe Dean or Henry To'oto'o, but with Kaho in the house, it won't be nearly as bad if we miss on them. We could take Diabate or Devonta Lee (who need more development) and still be a'ight with our ILB depth for 2019.

If you would have told me on signing day last year that we would later add to the class a run stuffing DT/NG, a scrappy QB with a high floor and a five star ILB I would have drank less.

There's an echo up in here this evening.

Redfish has mentioned on the radio since back when we were recruiting Kaho last Fall that Bama's staff viewed him as a future 1st round draft pick. Every year, they try to sign 3-4 that they feel like fit that description. The 2017 class was said to have potentially 7 or more (which is just an absolutely ridiculously absurd number).

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Every year, they try to sign 3-4 that they feel like fit that description.

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And people were curious why recruiting fell off last year... We got Anoma, Surtain, Waddle, and Jobe locked in, and we were all out of available future first round pick recruits. We need to end the 3-4 max future first rounder philosophy!!

Brandon Kaho's rankings:

247: 5*, #1 ILB, #21 player
Rivals: 4*, #8 OLB, #82 player
ESPN: 3*, #47 OLB, not in ESPN 300
Composite: 4*, #7 ILB, #133-player

ESPN was clueless about Kaho. Smh.

I doubt it will affect Shane Lee, King Mwikuta or Nakobe Dean. They have all said they're not concerned about tough competition for playing time; they expect that at any top tier program.

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And people were curious why recruiting fell off last year... We got Anoma, Surtain, Waddle, and Jobe locked in, and we were all out of available future first round pick recruits. We need to end the 3-4 max future first rounder philosophy!!

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3-4 is said to be about the minimum number they think we need to sign in order to sustain the success. I never heard the entire list of 2018 guys that they thought were potential 1st rounders down the road. But we could kind of guess.

Anoma
Surtain
Jobe
Barmore (was the #1 DT in the country on a lot of teams' boards by NSD)
Waddle (unless size prohibits)

Looking at it like that makes this past class look a lot better. And adding Kaho to it would be tremendous.

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it’s considered not cool to go to Bama in the state of Mississippi. I hear it from my kids all the time. He will catch some unwanted hell during the season if he announced now. (Jealous fans)That’s why it’s hard to pull Mississippi kids. State and Ole miss can’t stand Bama, so their fans chime in, and their is a lot of LSU fans in Mississppi too. Just the lay of the land here

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Demographics are a really odd thing sometimes. While Eastern MS has a ton of Bama fans, you'd think the whole state would have a lot of them due to success and proximity. Whereas Southern Tennessee (a good bit longer from Tuscaloosa than most of MS is), in the same state as one of the top 10 programs of all time (utk) is absolutely covered up with Bama fans. The Florida panhandle, in the same state as 3 historically top 20 programs, is covered up with Bama fans (and 7SU). MS is such a strange football state.